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I can write in Russian now!

I can write in Russian now! Looks like in my sleep I’ve been composing emails in cryllic or some strange language, or so it appears going by this email that bounced back to me.

Nasty spammers using fake from addresses 🙁

Centos 5.2 + Udev + XEN

So my first Centos 5.1 to Centos 5.2 upgrade on a VPS didn’t go so well.

After “yum update” and a reboot, we see:

[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) — /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193

Followed by:

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

How not very nice!
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